Modi questions Chennai police jurisdiction

Oct 18, 2010 |

New Delhi

Former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi on Saturday questioned the jurisdiction of Chennai police to entertain the criminal complaint filed by the Cricket Board accusing him of financial irregularities in the running of the Twenty20 League.
In a statement issued by his lawyer Mehmood Abdi, Mr Modi said he has not seen a copy of such a complaint and was not in a position to comment on it but went on to question the jurisdiction of the Chennai police to register an FIR.
“As far as filing of a complaint at Chennai by Mr Srinivasan is concerned, we have not seen a copy of such complaint therefore we are not in a position to comment upon the same except the following: Does the Chennai police has the territorial jurisdiction to entertain such a complaint and register an FIR and investigate the matter?” Mr Modi has questioned through his lawyer.
“If the BCCI General Body on 3rd July 2010, has resolved and authorised President Shashank Manohar to take legal action both civil and criminal only on basis of facts ascertained. Why has Srinivasan rushed and filed a complaint at Chennai especially when in view of following no facts are ascertained as of today: “Disciplinary committee order dated October 14, 2010 categorically records that ‘No member of the Disciplinary Committee has been consulted or has expressed any opinion on issues which may arise in relation to the present proceedings’ i.e. the proceedings against Mr Lalit Modi,” the statement added.

Post new comment

<form action="/comment/reply/37632" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post" id="comment-form"> <div><div class="form-item" id="edit-name-wrapper"> <label for="edit-name">Your name: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="60" name="name" id="edit-name" size="30" value="Reader" class="form-text required" /> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-mail-wrapper"> <label for="edit-mail">E-Mail Address: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="64" name="mail" id="edit-mail" size="30" value="" class="form-text required" /> <div class="description">The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.</div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-comment-wrapper"> <label for="edit-comment">Comment: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <textarea cols="60" rows="15" name="comment" id="edit-comment" class="form-textarea resizable required"></textarea> </div> <fieldset class=" collapsible collapsed"><legend>Input format</legend><div class="form-item" id="edit-format-1-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-1"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-1" name="format" value="1" class="form-radio" /> Filtered HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd></li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-format-2-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-2"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-2" name="format" value="2" checked="checked" class="form-radio" /> Full HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> </fieldset> <input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" id="form-3722d2d2f164c9257f6794681986d1d7" value="form-3722d2d2f164c9257f6794681986d1d7" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" id="edit-comment-form" value="comment_form" /> <fieldset class="captcha"><legend>CAPTCHA</legend><div class="description">This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.</div><input type="hidden" name="captcha_sid" id="edit-captcha-sid" value="88884801" /> <input type="hidden" name="captcha_response" id="edit-captcha-response" value="NLPCaptcha" /> <div class="form-item"> <div id="nlpcaptcha_ajax_api_container"><script type="text/javascript"> var NLPOptions = {key:'c4823cf77a2526b0fba265e2af75c1b5'};</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://call.nlpcaptcha.in/js/captcha.js" ></script></div> </div> </fieldset> <span class="btn-left"><span class="btn-right"><input type="submit" name="op" id="edit-submit" value="Save" class="form-submit" /></span></span> </div></form>